This
regiment was organized under the provisions of an act of Congress,
approved July 22, 1861, and was fully organized, equipped and officered
by Aug. 19, at which time it was mustered into the U. S. service at Camp
Olden, Trenton, for
three years. It left the state on Sept. 10, with 38 officers, 860
non-commissioned officers and privates, a total of 898.

Upon
arrival at Washington the regiment went into camp at Meridian hill, and
remained there until the early part of December, at which time it was
ordered to report to Gen. Hooker, near Budd's ferry, Md., where it was
brigaded with the 5th, 7th and 8th N. J., composing what was generally
known as the 2nd New Jersey brigade, the 3d brigade, Hooker's
division.

At
the battle of Williamsburg, Va., the brigade was sent into the left of a
road and occupied a wood in front of a line of field-works. Among the
killed was Lieutenant Colonel John P. Van Leer, and among the wounded
were a large number of officers.

At
the battle of Fair Oaks the 5th and 6th moved forward under Col. Starr,
cutting their way through a mass of panic-stricken fugitives, the loss
of the 6th being 7 killed and 14 wounded. The next morning the two
regiments advanced and occupied the ground recovered from the enemy,
where they remained until June
25, being almost constantly on duty at the front. In the combat at
Savage Station, the New Jersey brigade was not directly engaged, but the
6th regiment had 2 men wounded by shells. At Bristoe Station Colonel
Mott was badly wounded in the
forearm, and in the series of engagements, ending at Chantilly on Sept.
1, 1862, the regiment suffered a total loss of 104 men.

Going
into camp at Alexandria, the brigade remained undisturbed until Nov. 1
when, Lee having been driven from Maryland, it proceeded towards Bristoe
Station, where it arrived on the 4th, the 5th and 6th regiments being in
advance.

For
the Chancellorsville affair in the spring of 1863, the New Jersey
brigade, which at that time included the 2nd New York and 115th
Pennsylvania regiments, as well as the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th N. J., all
under command of Gen. Mott, crossed the Rappahannock on Friday, May 1.
The losses of the 6th during the engagement
amounted to 6 killed, 59 wounded and 8 missing, Colonel Burling being
among the wounded.

At
the time of the battle of Gettysburg the 115th Pennsylvania and 2nd New
Hampshire regiments were attached to the brigade, which was under the
command of Colonel Burling, General Mott not having recovered from his
wound received at
Chancellorsville.

At
the battle of the Wilderness, at 5 o'clock in the morning of the second
day, six regiments of the brigade advanced, the 5th, 6th and 11th N. J.
being placed
under Col. Sewell. In the assault at Spotsylvania the brigade was in the
front line, the 6th acting as skirmishers. The total losses of the
regiment during the months of May and June, 1864, amounted to 16 killed,
99 wounded, 8 missing.

In
August and September 1864, a large number of recruits were forwarded to
the regiment, and with those who had reenlisted and those whose term of
service had not expired, were assigned to what was known as Cos. A, B
and C, 6th battalion, until Oct. 12, 1864, at which time they were
transferred to and consolidated with
the 8th regiment. By reason of such transfer the 6th Regiment as an
organization ceased to exist. The total strength of the regiment was
1,485, and it lost, by resignation 26, by discharge 364, by promotion
53, by transfer 314, by death 180,
by desertion 209, by dismissal 3, not accounted for 157, and 179 were
mustered out at the end of the regiment's term of service.

The
following is derived fromGeorge Reeser
Prowell'sHistory of Camden
County, N.J.published in 1886

THE SECOND BRIGADE—Camden County was also strongly
represented in the Second New Jersey Brigade of three years' troops,
which was composed of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Regiments.
Companies D, E, G, I and K, of the Sixth, were raised in Camden County,
and the regiment was mustered into the United States service at Camp
Olden, Trenton, August 19, 1861. The Sixth left the State on September
10th, with thirty-eight commissioned officers and eight hundred and
sixty non-commissioned officers and privates.At Washington it went into camp at Meridian Hill, and in December
the four regiments reported to General Hooker, at Budd's Ferry,
Maryland, when they were brigaded as the Third Brigade, Hooker's
division; afterwards as the Third Brigade, Second Division, Third Corps;
then as the First Brigade, Fourth Division, Second Corps; and lastly as
the Third Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps.

At.
Williamsburg, Virginia, May 5, 1862, it was in the thickest of the
battle, losing over five hundred men, among whom was Lieutenant Colonel
John P. Van Leer, of the Sixth, a citizen of Camden, and thirty-eight
killed and seventy-eight wounded, of the same regiment. On June 1st, at
Turner's Farm, General Hooker placed himself at the head of the Fifth
and Sixth Regiments and "charged straight into and through the
woods, breaking the rebel lines and driving the enemy in great confusion
for a consider­able distance, recovering all the ground lost by Casey's
division and ending the fight for the day on that part of the
line."

The
other battles of the Peninsular Campaign in which the Sixth took part
were Fair Oaks, June 25th; Glendale, June 30th; and Malvern Hill, July
1st and August 20th. In this campaign the Second New Jersey
Brigade had six hundred and thirty-four officers and men killed and
wounded out of its total strength of twenty-seven hundred, From the
swamps it was moved to reinforce Pope, and bore the brunt of the
engagement at Bristow Station, on July 27th, and was an active
participant in the fighting of the four, succeeding days at Bull Run and
Chantillv, In this series of disastrous battles that eclipsed Pope's
military fame its ranks were depleted to the extent of two hundred andforty-eight killed, wounded and missing, the Sixth's share being one
hundred and four, or more than double that of any other of the four
regiments. The report of Lieutenant Colonel George C. Burling,
commanding the Sixth, says,—

"Wednesday
morning, August 27th, marched in the direction of Manassas, and when
near Bristoe's Station found the enemy in force. In a short time we met
the pickets and drove them in. We were then ordered to take an advanced
position on a hill to the right in front of us, which we gained without
loss under a terrible fire of shell from the enemy. We were then ordered
to relieve the Second New York, Eighth New Jersey
and One Hundred and Fifteenth Pennsylvania Regiments, who were engaged
on the right. Immediately on reaching our new position, the enemy fled
in great confusion, leaving their dead and wounded in great numbers on
the field. We pursued them for two miles and encamped for the night.
August 28th, pursued the enemy through the day and encamped near Blackburn's
Ford that night.

"August
29th, left camp at three o'clock, A. M. pursuing the enemy through
Centreville, down the Warrington Road.Crossing Bull Run at ten A.M.,we formed a line of battle and advanced, in the woods, to relieve
one of General Sigel's regiments, where we found the enemy in force
behind the embankment of an old railroad. After delivering and receiving
several volleys, we charged and drove them from their position, when
they received reinforcements, and were compelled to fall back nearly
fifty yards, which position we held until we were relieved by the Second
Maryland Regiment. During this engagement Colonel G. Mott and Major S.
E. Gilkyson, while gallantly encouraging their men, were wounded.

"August
30th, formed a line of battle about four o'clock, P.M.,
and were ordered to support batteries to the right and rear of
the position we had held the day before. Through some misunderstanding,
my regiment being on the right, the other regiments composing the
brigade were withdrawn without my knowledge, leaving me in a very
critical position. The enemy making a charge upon the batteries in
front, compelling them to fall back, I determined to resist their
advance when to my astonishment I found we were flanked right and left;
I then ordered the regiment to fall back in the woods, which was done in
order, and thus checked the advance of the enemy in front. At this time,
finding the flanks of the enemy rapidly closing round us, the only
safety for my command was to retreat. In trying to extricate ourselves
from the critical position in which we were placed my command suffered
severely. I was enabled to rally my regiment on a hill in close
proximity to the battlefield, under the shell of the enemy, where we
remained in line of battle until ordered by the ranking officer to fall
back to Centreville, where we joined the brigade the following morning.

At Chancellorsville, on May 3, 1863,
General Mott having been wounded, General
William J. Sewelltook command of the brigade and distinguished himself by
taking it into a charge which a correspondent of theWashington Chronicle described as
"one of those splendid achievements seldom occurring in this war so
far, but which, when occurring, cover a soldier's career with
imperishable glory." The brigade's loss in this engagement was
three hundred and seventy-eight, six killed and fifty-nine wounded being
credited to the Sixth.

Colonel
Burling was commander of this brigade at Gettysburg, where it did noble
service on the afternoon of July 2. He sent the Sixth into the Devil's
Den, where it lost one man killed and thirty-two wounded.

The
next engagement for the Sixth after Gettysburg was the skirmish at
McLean's Ford, on Bull Run, October 15th. On May 6, 1864, in the
Wilderness, and on the 10th and 12th, around Spotsylvania Courthouse, it
was in the most perilous positions of those hard-fought fields, and
behaved with much gallantry in the charge on the salient held by Ewell's
Confederates, in which three thousand prisoners and thirty guns were
taken. Adjutant C. F. Moore and Lieutenant Note brought off one of these
guns with a squad of the Sixth and turned it upon the enemy.Seven hundred men, killed and wounded, were subtracted from the
brigade on that terrible 12th of May.

Between
June 3d and 21st the Sixth participated in the fighting on the north
bank of the James River, and the attacks on Petersburg. Its losses in
May and June were sixteen killed, ninety-nine
wounded and eight missing.Its final engagement was near Deep Bottom, James River, August
14th to 18th, when, its three years of service having expired, it was
ordered to report at Trenton, and was mustered out September 7th, 1864

.

Company
K, 6th New Jersey Volunteers

This
Company was mustered in August 29, 1861,
and mustered out with the 6th Regiment on September 7, 1864
unless otherwise stated.

The
Notes in Italics were made by Captain Timothy C. Moore, who signed off
on the Company Roster at some point after October 12, 1862 and his
resignation on January 14, 1863. The roster was provided to this website
by Michael McCracken.

Enlisted as a Private on August
13, 1862
Promoted to Full Corporal on
January 15, 1863
Remained in Army after 6th New Jersey mustered out.
Transferred to Company
K, 6th Infantry Regiment New Jersey on April 1, 1865
Discharged on 29 June 1865

Benjamin
F. Reeves

September
17, 1861

Wounded
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862
Taken Prisoner at Bull Run
August 30, 1862
Hospitalized at Annapolis MDKilled
July 2, 1863

James Derken

Absent due
ti Illness in Camden

MUSICIANS

Frederick
Busser

Thomas
Marshall

Discharged
March 11, 1862

Henry
Bender, Jr.*

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

WAGONER

David
Creevy

Discharged
February 8, 1863

PRIVATES

James
Baker

October
3, 1861

Deserted
October 12, 1862

John
Barnes

WilliamBayne

Absent
due to illnessDischarged
October 13, 1862

William
Bisbing

Taken
Prisoner at Bull Run
August 30, 1862

Jesse H. Berry

Died of Wounds
June 1, 1863

J. G. Bowers

May 1, 1864

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

Lewis
R. L. Blizzard

Discharged
June 9, 1862

Peter
Bride

October
9, 1861

Discharged
May 22, 1862

Edward Budding

Discharged June 9, 1862at Budds Ferry Hospital

Charles
Braceland

Benjamin
F. Christy

Joseph
Cheeseman

Discharged
April 27,1863

Albert
G. Dark

May
21, 1964

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

Henry
Conerty

James
Coleman

Taken
Prisoner at Bull Run
August 30, 1862Discharged
June 19, 1863

John
S. Copeland

Died
September 18, 1861

Michael
Corcoran

Wounded
at Williamsburg VA
May 5, 1862Discharged
September 7, 1862

Jacob
Cowan

Transferred to
Co. D, 6th N.J. Regiment

J. J. Daniels

May 20, 1864

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

Cornelius Dowling

Discharged July 14, 1862

Patrick Earley

Discharged February 28, 1863

Thomas
Egan

Discharged
April 18, 1863

James
Finnegan

Discharged
September 1, 1864

John
Fogger

Deserted August 7,
1862

John
Gagger

Killed
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862

James
Gannon

Charles
P. Gannon

Deserted August 27, 1862
Transferred to
Co. D., 6th N.J. Regiment

Francis
A. Gaskill

Wounded
at Williamsburg VA
May 5, 1862Discharged
May 3, 1864

Samuel Gilbert

August 19, 1862

Discharged March 25, 1863

Lewis
H. Giles

Discharged
May 21, 1862

Martin Haley

William
Hampton

Wounded
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862

Henry
Harley

October
3, 1861

Joseph W. Henderson

Absent
due to illness
at David Island NJ
Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

William
H. H. Hilyard

Absent
due to illness
Discharged February 7,1863

James
R. Husted

Wounded
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862Discharged
January 16, 1863

Edward
Hutchinson

Wounded
at Fair Oaks
June 1, 1862Discharged
October 21, 1862

H.
C. Izard

May
16, 1864

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

W. H. Janes

January 29, 1862

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

E. H. Johnson

August 19, 1862

Discharged January 7, 1863

Elias P. Jones

Killed June 18, 1864

William
F. Joslin

Discharged
October 17, 1862

John Lane

Wounded
at Williamsburg VA
May 5, 1862

James
M. Lane

Absent
due to illnessDischarged February 2, 1863

Dennis
Laughlin

Absent
due to illness
Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

William H. Lawrence

Wounded
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

John
Leo

October
9, 1861

Wounded
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862
Discharged
December 31, 1862

Thomas
Lippincott

Discharged
May 14, 1862.

Thomas
M. Long

Discharged
July 21, 1863

George
A. Lovett

Discharged
September 17, 1862

W.
G. Leake

Wounded
at Williamsburg VA
May 5, 1862Died of Wounds
May 20, 1862

Joseph C. Lore

Wounded
at Williamsburg VA
May 5, 1862Died of Wounds
May 21, 1862

Martin
Marshall

Killed
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862

Patrick
Maguire

Discharged
October 7, 1862.

Robert McAdoo

Wounded
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862Discharged
December 25, 1862

Thomas
McDonald

Discharged
December 9, 1861

James
McCormick

Killed
May 5,1862 at
Williamsburg VA

Neil
McElhone

March
13, 1862

Wounded
at Fair Oaks
June 1, 1862
Died of Wounds
June 4, 1862

Robert McGourley

Deserted August 27, 1862

Michael
McLaughlin

Wounded
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862Died
of Wounds
September 14, 1862

Michael McGrory

Peter
McGeary

Discharged
August 29, 1861

James
McNulty

Discharged
September 26, 1862

W.
Miller

May
21, 1864

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

Abijah Mitchell

Deserted October 10,
1862

Joseph. Mox

May 23, 1864

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

William
Mullen

Absent
due to illnessDischarged
August
18, 1862

Robert
Munday

Transferred to
Co. B., 6th N.J. Regiment

Michael O'Neil*

Constantine O'Neil

Discharged
October 18, 62

F.
O'neil

February
7, 1862

Died
February 25, 1862

Fritz Olsun

May 20, 1864

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

J.
Penn

May 21, 1864

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

Jeremiah
C. Price
(Enlisted as Corporal)

Wounded August 29, 1862
Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

William
Proud, Jr.

Killed
June 1, 1862at Fair Oaks

Nathan
Rambo

Discharged
January 16, 1863
at Budd's Ferry Hospital

William
H. Randolph

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

Manliff
W. Reynolds

September
17, 1861

DischargedDecember
9, 1861

William V. Robinson

May 23, 1864

Wounded
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862
Treated at US Hospital
Chester PA
Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

A.
Schaider

May 23, 1864

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

Johns. Sibbett

Discharged
July 24,1862

William
Snape

Detached
to Bramhall's Battery
Discharged
September 7, 1864

G.
J. Stewart

May 21, 1864

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

John Scott

May 26, 1864

Mahlon Smith

Wounded at at
Fair Oaks
June 1, 1862

John
A. Smith

Died
November 30, 1863

William
Streeper

Absent
due to illness
At York PA Hospital
Discharged
October 17, 1862

Levi Swan

Died October 10, 1862

Henry
H. Stiles

September
18, 1861

Absent
due to illness
at Bridgeton NJ

Mathew Timmens

Transferred To
V. R. C.

William
Thompson

Discharged
September 7, 1864

J.
H. Thompson

Discharged
July 24, 1862

P. Vandertimer

May 21, 1864

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

Isaac
Warr

February
5, 1862

Transferred
To
V. R. C.

George
F. Ward

Discharged
September 16, 1862

W.
H. Watson

August
17, 1862

Transferred
To
V. R. C.

J.H. Wilkins

May 16, 1864

Transferred to
Co. G, 8th N.J. Regiment

Nathaniel
F. Wilkinson

Wounded
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862Transferred
To V. R. C.

John
Wiley

Killed
at Bull Run
August 29, 1862

Edgar
S. Wilkinson

Killed
at
Williamsburg VAMay
5, 1862

James Wittle

Discharged
September 7, 1864

*Musician
Henry Bender was sent to another Company, as Company K had another
musician. Private Michael O'Neil was sent to Company K in
exchange.